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This year, Flipkart has partnered with Axis Bank and ICICI Bank to offer a 10% instant discount for customers buying products using credit or debit cards. Moreover, the company has partnered with digital payment giant Paytm to offer assured cashback to customers paying through Paytm wallet and UPI. Other than this, the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant will provide EMI facilities via the Flipkart Pay Later option for various high-value products. This will allow customers to buy products and then pay the amount over 3,6,9, or 12 months tenures....

The announcement came recently as a part of the company’s third-quarter earnings report. And according to the official statement, the company will be unveiling an all-electric Transit Van at an “immersive virtual event on November 12, 2020. For the unaware, Ford has been talking about electrifying its vehicles since the last year. We even saw the US-based automobile manufacturers invest more than $11 billion in electric vehicles last year. And this all-electric Transit Van, like the Mustang-inspired SUV, is a part of the company’s vehicle electrification strategy....

GIGABYTE G5 Series: Specs and Features The GIGABYTE G5 series comes with a 15.6-inch IPS LCD Anti-glare display with support for a 144Hz refresh rate, 300 nits of brightness, a 16:9 aspect ratio, and 45% NTSC. The laptops are powered by the 11th Gen Intel i5-11400H Hexa-core processor, processor, paired with 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. There are two M.2 slots and one 2.5 inches swappable bay for storage capacity to go up to 6TB....

The Mountain View giant announced the new “Save to Photos” button for Gmail via an official changelog on the Google Workspace newsroom. The new button sits alongside the existing “Add to Drive” button on photos that are attached to an email. So, starting from today, Google Workspace customers, including G Suite and Business users, as well as personal Gmail account holders will see the new “Save to Photos” button while previewing an image attachment on the web....

Google Meet and Duo Become One! As a result of this integration, Google will now take all the Meet features and add them to the Google Duo app, so, this will be the primary app for video and audio calls. This is probably because the Duo app, as The Verge states, “has much more sophistication.” However, the Google Meet will be retained for branding, and Google Duo will be renamed Google Meet later this year....

Sonos Wins Against Google It has been revealed that ITC’s judge has ruled in the favor of Sonos and suggested that Google has violated the Tariff Act of 1930. As a result, it has imposed an import ban on some of Google’s audio products in the US. Google has 60 days to comply before the ban becomes official. For those who don’t know, Google has been found guilty of infringing five of Sonos’ patents, which it acquired back in 2013 when both companies entered into a partnership....

The noise-filtering feature started rolling out on Monday and will be available for every eligible user over the next three days. It is available for all G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers, but not to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite for Education, and G Suite for Nonprofits. In an official blog post about the new feature, Google said it uses Cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) to filter out distracting noise from the background....

iMessage Reactions Shown in Google Messages It is revealed that iMessage reactions will now be visible on Google Messages as part of its latest beta version 20220121_02_RC00. Now, they won’t appear exactly like iMessage reactions but will be converted into emojis. This is of course, much better than emojis in written format, which ended up cluttering the whole chat and defeating the whole purpose of emoticons. The iMessage reactions feature can also be enabled or disabled as per your choice....

Google Pay “Tap to Pay” Feature Introduced Google has collaborated with Pine Labs for the new “Tap to Pay” feature, and it will work with the Pine Labs POS (Point-of-Sale) machines and your NFC-enabled Android smartphones. The new Google Pay feature will be similar to how you can tap your compatible cards on a POS machine to make payments, without typing in the PIN number. The difference is that you can now use the Google Pay app on your smartphone for this....

So let’s not waste any more time and check out the key specifications of GoPro Hero 10 Black: GoPro Hero 10 Black: Specifications & Features First up, GoPro has upgraded the brains of its action camera. It has introduced a new GP2 system-on-chip, which is an upgrade over the GP1 chip that first launched with the Hero 6 Black in 2017. The new GP2 chip doubles the frame rate, offers snappy performance, and has more responsive touch controls....

iCloud for Windows Update The first change in the update is the ability to generate passwords. This way, you can generate strong passwords without much hassle, a standard feature found in popular password managers. Notably, it comes after Apple released a Chrome extension to let the users access iCloud Passwords on Windows. If you’re a creative professional who often switches between macOS and Windows, you’ll be glad to know that the latest iCloud update adds support for Apple’s ProRes videos and ProRaw photo formats....

The report comes from the Times of India, citing sources with knowledge about the matter. As per the report, senior officials from various sectors are now in active discussions to roll out billion-dollar capital support and product-linked incentive plan to lure major chipmakers to India. The report also states that government officials have reached out to the top officials of several chip manufacturing companies like TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), Intel, AMD, Fujitsu, and United Microelectronics Corp to discuss the details....

Captions on Instagram Stories and Reels Instagram started testing the auto-caption sticker in March and has announced the arrival of the feature on Twitter. Through its announcement tweet, the company also revealed that captions are coming soon to Reels too. Take a look at the announcement tweet below: Now you can add a captions sticker in Stories (coming soon to Reels) that automatically turns what you say into text. We’re starting in a handful of countries and hope to expand soon....

Instagram Tests Link Stickers in Stories Instagram’s latest test involves letting users add links to Stories through a sticker. While swipe-up links will remain exclusive like now, general users can tap on the sticker to access the link added in the Story. Moreover, users can even reply to Stories with sticker links, unlike swipe-up Stories where you can’t directly DM the person. During the initial test, Instagram will note how users are utilizing the feature and the company aims to reduce the spread of spam and misinformation....

Apple also hogged the other two podium positions, with the iPhone SE (2020) and the iPhone 11 Pro Max taking up the number 2 and number 3 spots. Overall, however, the company’s sell-in dropped to 39% share of the market, but it continued to remain the top smartphone vendor in the country. Analyzing the latest data, Counterpoint’s senior analyst, Hanish Bhatia, said: “The iPhone 11 remained the number one seller in the US market....

iQOO Z6 Pro 5G: Specs and Features If you compare the iQOO Z6 Pro with the iQOO Z6, there’s a visible difference. Although there’s the same vertically-positioned rectangular camera hump, the camera housings are much bigger and this certainly is a trend smartphone makers are going for. The front part has a 6.44-inch AMOLED display with support for a 90Hz refresh rate, as opposed to the 120Hz display of the iQOO Z6....

Jio Cloud PC Announed at 45th Reliance AGM Announcing its new device, Reliance Jio President Kiran Thomas said, “Owning a computer these days can be cumbersome, as it has to be upgraded and changed every few years. Using Jio AirFiber, people can do away with all expenses related to buying computer hardware and periodically upgrading it, and opt to use a virtual PC hosted in the cloud – called Jio Cloud PC....

Jio Happy New Year Offer Detials The Rs 2, 545 prepaid plan is now getting additional 29 days of validity. This will now increase its validity from 336 days to 365 days, making it an annual plan at no extra cost. For those who don’t know, the plan provides users with 1.5GB of data per day, unlimited calls, and 100 SMS a day. These benefits are topped with free access to the Jio apps such as JioTV, JioCinema, JioSecurity, and JioCloud....

Lenovo Smart Clock Essential: Key Specs Before moving to the price and availability of Lenovo Smart Clock Essential in India, let me give you an overview of the key specs of the device. The Smart Clock Essential is a smart speaker with a display. It features a 4-inch LED panel which, unfortunately, does not support touch input. It can show you the current time, temperature, days of the week, and notifications for scheduled alarms....

Now, for the unaware, Let’s Encrypt is one of the world’s most prominent digital certificate-authorizing committee. When the organization came into being, it applied to include its “ISRG Root X1” root certificate in all web browsers and operating systems. These certificates are also cross-signed by Identrust with its own “DST Root X3” root certificate and are used by around 30% of all the websites on the web. So, according to a recent announcement, the partnership between Let’s Encrypt and Identrust will expire on September 1, 2021....